Topical Area 5: Software, System and Service Engineering
(S3E)

Warsaw, Poland, 17–20 September, 2023

The Topical Area emphasizes the issues relevant to developing and maintaining software systems that behave reliably, efficiently and effectively. It investigates both established traditional approaches and modern emerging approaches to large software production and evolution.

For decades, it is still an open question in software industry, how to provide fast and effective software process and software services, and how to come to the software systems, embedded systems, autonomous systems, or cyber-physical systems that will address the open issue of supporting information management process in many, particularly complex organization systems. Even more, it is a hot issue how to provide a synergy between systems in common and software services as mandatory component of each modern organization, particularly in terms of IoT, Big Data, and Industry 4.0 paradigms.

In recent years, we are the witnesses of great movements in the area of software, system and service engineering (S3E). Such movements are both of technological and methodological nature. By this, today we have a huge selection of various technologies, tools, and methods as a discipline that helps in a support of the whole information life cycle in organization systems. Despite that, one of the hot issues in practice is still how to effectively develop and maintain complex systems from various aspects, particularly when software components are crucial for addressing declared system goals, and their successful operation. It seems that nowadays we have great theoretical potentials for application of new and more effective approaches. However, it is more likely that real deployment of such approaches in industry practice is far behind their theoretical potentials.

The main goal of this Topical Area is to address open questions and real potentials for various applications of modern approaches and technologies in S3E so as to develop and implement effective software services in a support of information management and system engineering. We intend to address interdisciplinary character of a set of theories, methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies in disciplines such as: Software Engineering Methods, Techniques, and Technologies, Cyber-Physical Systems, Lean and Agile Software Development, Design of Multimedia and Interaction Systems, Model Driven Approaches in System Development, Development of Effective Software Services and Intelligent Systems, as well as applications in various problem domains. We invite researchers from all over the world who will present their contributions, interdisciplinary approaches or case studies related to modern approaches. We express an interest in gathering scientists and practitioners interested in applying these disciplines in industry sector, as well as public and government sectors, such as healthcare, education, or security services. Experts from all sectors are welcomed.

Topics

Submissions are expected from, but not limited to the following topics:

Advanced methodology approaches in S3E – new research and development issues
Advanced S3E Process Models
Applications of S3E in various problem domains – problems and lessons learned
Applications of S3E in Lean Production and Lean Software Development
Total Quality Management and Standardization for S3E
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning methods in advancing S3E approaches
S3E for Information and Business Intelligence Systems
S3E for Embedded, Agent, Intelligent, Autonomous, and Cyber-Physical Systems
S3E for Design of Multimedia and Interaction Systems
S3E with User Experience and Interaction Design Methods
S3E with Big Data and Data Science methods
S3E with Blockchain and IoT Systems
S3E for Cloud and Service-Oriented Systems
S3E for Smart Data, Smart Products, and Smart Services World
S3E in Digital Transformation

Topical Area Curators

Luković, Ivan, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Popović, Aleksandar, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro
Kolukısa Tarhan, Ayça, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Mernik, Marjan, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Contact: s3e@fedcsis.org

Of potential interest

IWCPS+SEW –
Software Engineering for Cyber‑Physical Systems
KKIO –
Practical Aspects of and Solutions for Software Engineering
WAPL –
Advances in Programming Languages

Submission rules

Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for an additional fee (see details). IEEE style templates are available here.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area.
Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online.
Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here.
Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS Tracks.

There is a possibility of selecting extended versions of the best papers for further procedure in the journals: ComSIS, ISI IF(2021) = 1.170, and COLA, ISI IF(2021) = 1.778.